Doing drugs is indeed the worst injustice perpetrated by the self against the self. Why, even mafiosi films such as 'The Godfather" show powerful crime cartels refusing the hugely monetary temptation of doing drugs.
Rendered glamorous and sexy by the sixties' hippie generation (remember the Bollywood hit entitled 'Hare Krishna Hare Rama' with Zeenat Aman as the perpetually high addict using drugs as a disconnect from the harsh realities?), the drug business has made the Latin American countries and citizens the eternal suspects and criminals not merely in the Hollywood, but in the American imagination itself as the flipside of the American Dream.
Why, even the warlords of the ancient Afganisthan as well as the otherwise horribly conservative Talibani's have survived because of the cash crop called the opium/poppy!
Of all the toxic substances, opium is the worst as it is the most powerful and comparably cheaper drug which apparently ruined generations in Punjab as shown in "Udta Punjab".
Doing drugs is thus made the 'in', the fashionable thing so much so that the pre-Covid Pune boasted of hukka parlours. For quite some time, whiteners were banned in the liquid form as creepy youngsters used it for a quickie and cheap high.
I suppose, extremely weak people with very silly, stupid ideas of modernity and/or creativity go for drugs. Why, your own existence is thus at stake in a foolish way. Everyone faces huge problems in the course of life and doing drugs can never be the solution, however hip. Hence on the anti Drug Day, this reminder that true creativity never needs false intoxication!
Pratima@ The best intoxication is courageously and creatively lived life itself, however tough it may seem!
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